GLASS, Charles. Top US writer & correspondent slams "[Israeli] long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation"

Charles Glass(born
in 1951) is a US author,
journalist, and broadcaster specializing in Middle East
affairs. He has worked for The Spectator, Newsweek and The Observer, was ABC News chief Middle
East correspondent from 1983–93 and has written a number of books
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Glass
).

Charles Glass was one
of 18 FAMOUS WRITERS including 3 Nobel Laureates who in an Open
Letter published worldwide slammed Apartheid Israel’s
Palestinian Genocide as “[Israel’s] long-term
military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less
than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation”:

“The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel
and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted
two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere,
except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli
soldier prisoner--and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by
the Israelis--there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.

That this "kidnapping" was considered an outrage, whereas the
illegal military occupation of the West Bank
and the systematic appropriation of its natural resources--most particularly
that of water--by the Israeli Defense (!) Forces is considered a regrettable
but realistic fact of life, is typical of the double standards repeatedly
employed by the West in face of what has befallen the Palestinians, on the land
allotted to them by international agreements, during the last seventy years.

Today outrage follows outrage; makeshift missiles cross sophisticated ones.
The latter usually find their target situated where the disinherited and
crowded poor live, waiting for what was once called Justice. Both categories of
missile rip bodies apart horribly--who but field commanders can forget this for
a moment?

Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But
the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in
order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and
geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of
the Palestinian nation.

This has to be said loud and clear, for the practice, only half declared and
often covert, is advancing fast these days, and, in our opinion, it must be
unceasingly and eternally recognized for what it is and resisted.

PS: As Juliano Mer Khamis, director of the documentary film Arna's
Children, asked: "Who is going to paint the 'Guernica'
of Lebanon?"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/4293063550/
) , a huge painting (1.3 metres x
2.9 metres) that is geometrically and
conceptually based on Pablo Picasso's huge anti-war painting "Guernica" about the Nazi and fascist destruction of
the Basque town of Guernica in Spain in 1937.
Qana is based on the 2006 destruction by the war criminal Israelis (for the
second time) of the Southern Lebanese town of Qana (assertedly where Jesus turned water
into wine at a wedding feast). Some elements (the screaming woman, the bull,
the screaming horse are common) as is the geometrical scaffolding (a double
Golden Rectangle between upper and lower strips).